Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-07-16
SUCH is NEWSPAPER FAME.
what the Press Says of People Whom
tho World Ought to Know.
Mr.. Bancroft keeps eight type writer's

What the Press Says Of People Whom
tho World Ought to Know.
Mr.. Bancroft keeps eight type writer's
busy
Miss Braddon Is about TO publish her
flfticth novel,
The empress OF Japan .coutemplates
visiting this country soon.
Gen. Sheridan gets seasick as coon as
he sails the ocean main.
Justice Miller is now tho Oldest occu-
pant of the supreme court bench.
John Albcrtson, of Stakcd Plains, Tex.
tho other day killed u prairie dog that had
three good eyes.
Col. Merriam, commandment at Fort
Laramie is in Europe, trying to introduce
his improved kncpsack in the European
armies.
Ex-Empress Eugene Inns applied to the
city government Of Naples for permission
to enter the hospital as n nurse, and care
for the soldiers wounded ut MuSsowah.
:. Miss Annie Thomas, of Billings, Mon,
is the busiest woman i'll that busy terri
tory She conducts n 6,000 acre ranch,
looks after valuable timber property, anu
has an interest in two paying mines near
Butte City.
The czar's eldest son. who has entered
upon his twentieth year, has tenor
voice of rurc beauty and great compass.
For some time past his musical studies
have been interrupted owing III illness,
but they have been recently resumed
There is a farmor named Bill living
near Saybrook, Conn. This OF itself is
not remarkable circumstance, but the
sas Nebraska Bill is worthy of notice. He
is called Nebby for short.
DR.. George w. Bull, young New
York surgeon who hns been prosecuting
his studies in the laboratory of an emil
nent oculist in Paris, has invented IN in
strument by which thu length or limit of
vision can be Instantly determined.
There is a very wonderful old lady ut
Maidstone, Eng, who has bsen known
since girlhood us tho Fair Maid of Kent"
She is 1903 years old and is said TO retain
slight traces of her former marvellous
beauty.
Through the generosity Of Jay Gould
tue Mount Vernon estate, where the body
OF Washington lies eutombed, has been
enlarged by the addition OF o tract Of
thirty three and half acres on the north
ern side, near the old Washington man
sion. The acquisition of this tract was
much needed to protect the property from
encroachment.
Cadet Skunk, of Pennsylvania, who has
been graduated ut the head Of his class ut
West Point, is u grandson OF Il former
governor of tho keystone state. Governor
Skunk was u self made man. He was
obliged to go to work at 10 years of age,
but managed to 'plck up' sufficient edu-
cation to become q school teacher ut 10.
He taught school for nine years. He was
twice elected governor of Pennsylvania.
The explorer, Henry N. Stanley, is said
to have acquired by purchase Of the native
chiefs several Of the most commanding
sites and large tracts of the richest terri
tory in Africa, which he intends to hold
by title, trusting to time TO make it re- :
muneratiye. Hc took the precantion to
have white witnesses to all his transac-
tions, which were verified by written in
struments. The consideration was, of
course, comparatively tritiing.
John Boyle O'Reiny has beautiful
A plaster head and bust, of hfo size,
done by Mr.. John Donoglue, the Bos-
ton sculptor, and sent to New York
for perpetuation in bronze, has been ex-
hibited to a favored few within u day or
two past. 1t is like her, for it has life
likeness marked in every line. The
model has Greek face, eyes almost with
speech in them, lips parted, hair drawn
back and loosely knotted behind.
Charles Alden, of Randolph, Mass,
onco one of the richest inventors in New
England, committed suicide to escape the
pangs of poverty. For one patent alone,
that for the evaporation of apples, he re-
ccived the sum of 100000. In former
years he was member of the board of
New York aldermen, and was looked
upon as ond of tho most promising real
estate dealers in the metropolis. Gnfor-
tunate speculations swept all his posses
sions away.
Gems Sherman and Sheridan expressed
@ wish while at West Point recently to
have their portraits placed beside that Of
Grant in Grant Hall Mr. Childs, who
presented West Point with the portrait of
Grant, told Sherman and Sheridan that
he would gladly add their pictures to his
gift, and added that they were ut liberty
to choose their own artists. The portraits
of the two generals are to be Of the same
size as that Of Gen. Grant